Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1887-04-21
test as to the manner In which the votes

| played WIN dynamite percussion caps, anu
4 he Is now minus two fingers on one
hand, thumb and two fingers Oh the other.
The report of the chief of the Bureau Of
Statistics for the month of March shows
that the exports of breadstuffs from De-
troit amounted to $50, 12l; and from Port
Huron S4l,225
James Walden, son of John Walden,
who resides near Cass City. was terribly
frozen In the recent blizzard near Fort
Assinaboine, Mont, and at last accounts
were not expected to recover.
| w. w. Green of Harrison, and his
brother Jonathan of Summerfield town
ship, Clare county, have recently come in
to possession of about SO, 900 worth of
property in Hillsdale county.
Robert Shields Of Menominee has been
arrested on charge of ballot box stufing.
1t Is alleged that when person did not
care to vote on the amendment he put a
mo" ballot into the box for him.
Erwin Coates, n l2-year old deaf mute,
while fishing at the Michigan and Ohio
bridge over the Kalamazoo river In Battle
Creek, was struck by the day express, his
skull crushed and he was hurled into the
river.
| worthy IutldHl, uutnOE vi uludu ;
elocution, died in Berrien Springs recently.
aged ~. He was appointed circuit judge
in 1869. He was stricken with blindness
four years ago. He was prominent spir-
itualist.
Clara, the 2-years-old daughter Of John
Parmenter of Charlotte, was drowned IL
the cistern the other night. She left the
house unnoticed while the family were re
ceiving guests at the marriage ceremony
of brother.
Miss Burbank of Cooper, Kalamazoo
county, sues the l.. s. & M. s. railroad fol
$50, 900, because she hurt herself in get
ting off a train last fall. She says her in
juries were caused by carelessness on tn,
part Of the railroad employees.
The st. Clair River tunnel on the Cana.
dian side Is now $50 feet from the shaft
and the work is being pushed and is max
ing satisfactory progress. Work on tn,
Michigan shaft has not been resumed, The
timber not having come to hand.
| The salt manufacturers of the st. Clai!
river are reported sick, and number OF
them will not operate their works thl'
summer. Coal at 50 per ton and salt a.
only 81 cents per barrel is not calculate
| to put much vim into the salt manufac
| ture.
b. L. Emerson, agent of the Cope
| Falls mine, Lake Superior, who wa
severely injured last season and finall.
was taken to Boston in special car ant
slung in a hammock, for treatment. dieC
in that city recently. He was greatly es
teemed.
Mrs. Kate Nation, the oldest pioneer
of Lapeer county, died at Attica few
days since at the age of so years. Sh,
came to Michigan in 1927, and resided fol
time at Fort Gratiot, where she helpe'
the builders of the lighthouse there, anC
afterwards at Almont.
Commissioner Colman OF the department
of agriculture has submitted to governors
Of states bill providing for the suppress
sion Of contagious diseases among cattle.
The bill is similar TO one passed In Michi'
gan In 1885, that bill being the one Oh
which 1t was modelled.
Clark ii. Thomas Of Coldwater has been
arrested charged with attempted murder in
hiring one Walter {. Cole to strangle or suf-
focate one Charles Davis, aged 74years, and
lived with Thomas. Thomas held policy
Of 81, 900 on Davis life In the Old Peoples
life insurance company.
Geo. w. Phelps, capitalist from Mt
Morris, n. Y. has offered TO construct In
Caro- complete system Of Holly water
works, provided the village will take GER
tain number af hydrants for fire protection
at an annual rental Of $50 per hydrant
Capt w. l.. Cofinbury of Grand Rapids
has been appointed one Of the vice-presi-
dents of the proposed centennial celebra-
| ton of Ohio, which will occur at Marietta,
Ohio, in April, 1883. He helped them
celebrate their semi-centennial there fifty
years ago and they haven't forgotten 1t.
Peter Gruet. half-breed Indian farmer
on Swan Creek, ten miles from Saginaw
| City, was I'm town the other day and OBJ
tanned some liquor. He started for his
home in a canoe, which capsized in the
| Tittabawassee, and Gruet was drowned.
He was 35 years old and his father was
one of the early settlers in the county.
The late Jesse Hoyt, In his will, left to
East Saginaw 500, 600 with which to build
| and furnish public library, and donating
| a splendid piece Of property for the site.
| The money has been in the hands of
| trustees for several years, but now plans
have been secured for the building and
work commenced on the same.
Charles Harrison of Inkster, Wayne
county, died recently, in his Goth year. All
his nine children but one attended his
funeral. Mr.. Harrison was one of the old
est citizens Of Wayne county, having set
tied there Immediately upon the close of
the war of 1912. He was apparently In
good health, smoked pipe, fell asleep and
never woke
A horrible accident occurred at the Sher-
wood manufacturing companys factory In
Grand Rapids the other day. John Gibson,
laborer aged 20, got caught in the main
shaft and was whirled around with great
rapidty. Both arms and one leg were
broken. necessitating the amputatlon of
one arm and one leg. The right arm was
torn into thousand pieces
Deputy Railroad Commissioner W, G.
Ransom has been engaged for the past two
or three weeks collecting in different por-
tons of the state facts which have bear
ing on the proposed reduction Of the legal
fare on railroads in Michigan to cents a
mile, In order that the legislature may
have as much light as possible in acting
on the bill now pending at Lansing.
Mrs. WIN. A. Mosley of Union City re-
Gently died at the home of her daughter,
Mrs. c. w. Croker, In Chicago Her
name before marriage was Miss Bingham,
and she was the first white child born on
the Sandwich Islands, her father, the Rev.
Hiram Bingham, being amissionary there.
She was very worthy and estimable lady.
The remains were buried In Union City.
The police of Grand Rapids found Lille
Ketchum, % years old, sick in Smith San
ford's den and dying Of starvation. She
had been lying uncared for for several
weeks, and her body has become so ema-